River Valley Conference taking shape as new league in area

Cooperation making for an easy transition

11:10 PM,
Jul. 17, 2013

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Give the schools in the new River Valley Conference credit. Faced with a mandate from the state Department of Education to integrate the eight-team Cedar Valley Conference with five schools from two other conferences, administrators could have griped and groaned and made the transition miserable for all concerned.

But they didn't. Within the last year, athletic directors from the 13 schools have broken the league into two divisions, put together the schedules for all sports and have developed a working relationship that belies the circumstances under which the conference was born.